The story of a
confident women
The family of Bolon Bibi consists of 4 members. Besides her husband
she has 1 son and 1 daughter, both very young. Her family would have
been run on day earning basis by her husband.
All on a sudden she became helpless as her husband was missing. However, with courage she started cane
work as means of livelihood. She had heard
about VGD card. Then she approached to the chairman of her union for having a
VGD card. As she fulfils the
criteria for VGD card the chairman helped her to get a card. Being a VGD beneficiary
she started her life with a greater zeal. Her daughter read in class 3 and the
son is yet to go to school. She understood the inherent objective of VGD
programme with the help of the NGOs trainer. She decided to participate in all the training sessions of the progrmme
to get herself skilled. And she did accordingly. After receiving Life
Skills training she started to apply them wherever practicable. This has
changed her day to day behavioural pattern. She also took IGA training on
poultry rearing and received Tk. 2000 as credit from FIVDB. She purchased 7
chicks and 1 she goat with the money. From the programme the VGD women are
asked to adopt individually an income
generating activity according to their respective capacity. She then decided
to develop a nursery. From the programme her decision was encouraged and
provided necessary technical support on
nursery development as well. She used to work in a nursery as day
labourer and this she has been continuing even after she became a VGD card
holder. This working experience gave her an
added advantage to be involved in nursery activity. She gradually started to save some food grain after
meeting her family's monthly requirement. She later sold them to
purchase nursery input, with which she developed a nursery. This has cost her nearly Tk. 1700. Since establishment of the
nursery she has sold saplings worth Tk. 3000. She has grown 5000 saplings of different varieties in
her nursery. This nursery has become a mainstay of her life and the
subsistence of her small family comes from this nursery.
